{"id":2051,"date":"2018-02-12T07:22:57","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T13:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=2051"},"modified":"2018-02-12T07:22:57","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T13:22:57","slug":"westjet-sees-boeings-max-7-as-key-to-savings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=2051","title":{"rendered":"WestJet Sees Boeing&#8217;s Max 7 as Key to Savings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boeing&#8217;s slow-selling 737 Max 7 has a big fan in Western Canada. WestJet Airlines will become the second carrier next year, after Southwest Airlines Co., to operate the smallest version of Boeing\u2019s upgraded workhorse. The Calgary-based company is set to receive five of the single-aisle jetliners next year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe love those planes,\u201d WestJet Chief Executive Officer Gregg Saretsky said in an interview, citing the aircraft\u2019s range and 12 additional seats compared with the Boeing 737-700, a linchpin of the airline\u2019s fleet. \u201cIt\u2019s great for long, thin markets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Click the link below for the full story!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-02-12\/westjet-ceo-sees-boeing-s-slow-selling-max-7-as-key-to-savings?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bd&amp;utm_campaign=headline&amp;cmpId=yhoo.headline&amp;yptr=yahoo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WestJet High on Boeing 737 Max7<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2052\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/westjet-b737max-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"835\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/westjet-b737max-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/westjet-b737max-768x438.jpg 768w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/westjet-b737max.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 835px) 100vw, 835px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boeing&#8217;s slow-selling 737 Max 7 has a big fan in Western Canada. WestJet Airlines will become the second carrier next year, after Southwest Airlines Co., to operate the smallest version of Boeing\u2019s upgraded workhorse. The Calgary-based company is set to receive five of the single-aisle jetliners next year. \u201cWe love those planes,\u201d WestJet Chief Executive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[714,45,269,42,220,47,118,41,52,54,99,716,715,429,276,186,76],"class_list":["post-2051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-news","tag-714","tag-45","tag-269","tag-42","tag-a320","tag-airbus","tag-airlines","tag-boeing","tag-bombardier","tag-cseries","tag-dreamliner","tag-max10","tag-max7","tag-max8","tag-neo","tag-southwest","tag-westjet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2053,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions\/2053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}